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16 July

From The Great War 1914-1918

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1915

  • Template:WF - German attack in Lorraine (forest of Parroy) and in sector of Fontenoy (west of Soissons).
  • Template:EF - Between Vistula and Bug Germans attack Russians on the Wolitsa, and Russians repulse Archduke north of Krasnik. Russians defeat Austrians on east bank of Dniester and capture 2,000 prisoners.

1916

  • Template:WF - British consolidate their positions; withdraw from Bois des Foureaux (High Wood); French make slight advance west of Fleury (Verdun).
  • Template:EF - Sakharov drives Austrians back on to the Lipa, captures Mikhailovka, makes 13,000 prisoners.

1917

  • Template:WF - German counter-attacks repulsed at Moronvillers (Champagne).
  • Template:EF - Russian withdrawal in Galicia; Kalusz evacuated.
  • Template:NO - 6 German steamers intercepted off Dutch coast, 2 driven ashore, damaged by gunfire, 4 captured.
  • Template:PO - Disorders in Petrograd engineered by Maximalists commence.

1918

  • Template:WF - South of Dormans French and Americans counter-attack and take villages of St. Agneau and La Chapelle. Germans advance up Marne to Montvoison (seven miles from Epernay).
  • Template:EF - Ex-Tsar Nicholas and family shot at Ekaterinburg, capital of Red Ural, by order of Ural Regional Council.
  • Template:PO - Trial of M. Malvy, former French Minister of Interior, on charge of treason.

References/notes

Lord Edward Gleichen (1918–1920). Chronology of the War. Volumes I, II & III. Constable & Company, London. (Copyright expired)

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